page_title: List of Hot Soul Singles number ones of 1975
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Hot Soul Singles number ones of 1975 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: Photo of singer Al Green from an appearance on the Mike Douglas Show.
context_page_description: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs is a chart published by Billboard that ranks the top-performing songs in the United States in African-American-oriented musical genres; the chart has undergone various name changes since its launch in 1942 to reflect the evolution of such genres. In 1975, it was published under the title Hot Soul Singles. During that year, 43 different singles topped the chart, based on playlists submitted by radio stations and surveys of retail sales outlets.
  The rapid turnover of number ones during the year meant that 1975 had the highest number of chart-topping singles in a calendar year since Billboard launched a combined sales and airplay chart for black music in 1958. Only eight singles spent more than one week at number one, including one which spent two weeks in the top spot but non-consecutively. The year's longest-running number one was "Fight the Power" by the Isley Brothers, which spent three consecutive weeks atop the chart in July and August. The Ohio Players spent the highest total number of weeks at number one of any act, with four weeks in the peak position.
caption: Al Green had two number ones in 1975.
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